A ride on Niki Lauda's new airline

[Jumbolino]

Well to keep it short I provide you a lot of pic's I have taken during this short trip yesterday, from leaving my home town until tochdown in Zurich.
Well it wasn't the inauguration flight but the second after and so the price for the return trip was more than promotional - whopping 78 EUR inkl. taxes and inclusive food !!!!!! (except for alcohol you have to pay, but non alcoholic drinks as well as tea, coffee and of course FOOD are free ....)
Unfortunatly a lot of the pic's are taken from behind the windows and it seems that they (Airport vienna as well as Niki) don't clean them too often

nice advertisment on my way to the bus


after arrival I checked in for the NIKI flight in the OS sector - checkin is done by Austrian and received this

afterwards I decided that it's time for a lunch as well as for some pic's (from the restaurant you have a good view)







this pic is even worse but it's an unknown bird - or better first time I saw a VBird


quite busy Vienna international yesterday

also a worse pic but maybe the last change to take one



after this a couple from japan liked to take a pic from me - I'm quite sure they thought how crazy europeans are

Austrian time

while waiting for bording (done by< bus I took a few other pics

and while the bus carried us around I could clearly see our plane


*uffz* the busdriver let us go outside !




next to us an austrian error is waiting for pax which doesn't like food

others even a Jumbolino around (after decollage I saw also an SN BA avro waiting for BRU

that's an Lauda plane which isn't Lauda any more

often seen guest in Vienna waiting for their pax to Kiev

more from our plane

and a car

while all others waiting on the stairs I took a pic from them

and a funny sticker onto the stairs

while waiting for a - being always late - pax oh ton "nehm' ma die noch mit ?"


inside the plane

and outside again

nice sandwich Niki provided for his pax

salami (dead donkey) or chicken - but nothing for people which say "don't eat dead animal's" ok the mousse au chocolate afterwards would be something (and short before touch down the steward came twice and third with mousse ...)


(two euros for the beer, everything else was FREE of charge)

time to take a pic outside



inflight entertainment

the mentioned mousse au chocolate (with cherries)

and a pic from me myself inflight short time before touchdown in ZRH

hot but cloudy weather over Schaffhausen (short time after)

and the late evening sun


remembered me to the year 2000 and Air Littoral where we frequently used this route short time before touchdown in ZRH
and an little AVI
but I was so silly and held the cam the wrong way so I took another video from the video
http://jumbolino.ch-aviation.ch/niki/kif_1204.avi
(I liked to beat Louise but this was definitly the wrong way )

Jumbolino.

[Comet]

Jumbolino - very interesting report, especially the pictures! Unfortunately the pictures in the bottom part of your report are not working, but the others are great. Vienna looks a nice airport.

[Jumbolino]

Louise, wait a bit the pictures at the bottom take a while until they are loaded
btw. I´ve forgotten to mention that we had gotten newspaper service ("only" a choice of two local and one weekly newspaper but more than other offer ....)

[VC10]

Jumbolino, that's a nice report, with lovely pics (especially the ones with the colourful tails against a blue sky!)

We are going to try and get the rest of your photos downloaded later as it's now our Chocolate Time (Yummy!!)

[AN124]

Very nice report Jumbolino.

You where lucky you saw the VBird. This week is the last week that PH-BMC flies for VBird. Next week the plane will be painted in Dutchbird colours again and start operating flights for dutchbird again.

Best Regards,
Yvo

[Jumbolino]

Yvo, the bad thing was that the pic is that worse,
but threw the window with heavy zoom ....
it didn´t work better
although I beat more that the Alitalia plane maybe was my last chance but it seems that they are rescued - for the time being

[Avro]

Sorry for the late reply
That's a very nice and original report Jutta
I really like the SN advertisment in German

Chris

[Jumbolino]

@Chris - and I estimate, that you understand it, too ?
it's a hard hint that the people shouldn't believe in the OS ad's anymore

[nwa757]

Wonderful report! Loved the pics!

[Flying_Dutchman]

Nice report, Jumboline I love the pictures
The service looks to me good, was it good?

[Jumbolino]

yes, the service was indeed very good, although they had nothing for vegetarian, or people which should not eat meat due to other reasons, both didn't bother me and it was tasteful